 | 1889 - 442 Seiten
...beginnings have gone on to higher forms, while the dodder, as Prof. Drummond again, in substance, savs, from a breach of the laws of evolution, pays one of Nature's heaviest fines — loses the organs it once had. Mi. Holyoke Sem. and College, S. Hadley, Mass. EXPLANATION OF PLATE VIII. — Fig. 1,... | |
 | Postal Microscopical Society - 1889 - 348 Seiten
...beginnings have gone on to higher forms, while the dodder, as Prof. Drummond again, in substance, says, from a breach of the laws of evolution, pays one of Nature's heaviest fines — loses the organs it once had. Aft. Holyoke Sem. and College, S. Hadley. Mass. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVI. Fig. 1, mature... | |
 | Indiana. Department of Geology and Natural Resources - 1897 - 830 Seiten
...marshes and damp thickets ; common. July 15. 581. (3163.) C. POLYGOKORUM Engelm. Dodder. (C. ddorocarpa Engelm.) Low, damp soil, on Solidago rugosa Mill,...POLEMONIACE^E. Polemonium Family. 297. PHLOX L. 582.* (3166) P. BCFIDA Beck. Dwarf Phlox. Sandy hillsides and dry, open woods. Common at Five-mile Pond and Coal Creek.... | |
 | Indiana. Department of Geology and Natural Resources - 1897 - 830 Seiten
...continued until it presents the degraded spectacle of a plant " without a root, without a twig, witbouta leaf, and having a stem so useless as to be inadequate...POLEMONIACE^E. Polemonium Family. 297. PHLOX L. 582.* (3166) P. BIFIDA Beck. Dwarf Phlox. Sandy hillsides mid dry, open woods. Common at Five-mile Pond and Coal Creek.... | |
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If one could trace its history from the beginning he would doubtless find that it once possessed a weak stem, and desiring to reach the light, and twining to accomplish this, it tasted juices by chance, was nourished by them, and thus began a downfall... 